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The Acrobat plugin it installs is also different from the one in version 2. This means you can safely install the new version next to the current one, give it a try and keep using the old version as before. This is a Beta Version. Imposition Wizard 3 is still in a beta phase, so it may have issues. This document explains the PDF forms basics in Acrobat DC. (For more information or question/answer on PDF forms, click the appropriate link above.) You can fill in forms using either Acrobat or the free Acrobat Reader. You can create static or interactive forms in Acrobat. Interactive forms.
Before Adobe Acrobat Pro DC, it was not possible to scale pages from e.g. 5×7″ to Letter size, or form A4 to A5 by changing both the page size, and scaling the page content to fit the new page size. All previous versions of Acrobat had to offer was the crop tool, and it’s “Change Page Size” option to either crop out a portion of the page, or to make the page size larger, but in both cases, the size of the page content was not changed.In Acrobat Pro DC, Adobe introduced a new scaling feature in the Preflight tool. Because Preflight is a Pro-only feature, this is not available in Acrobat Standard.Acrobat comes with a number of sample profiles that demonstrate the tool, but none of them is very useful (unless all you want to do is scale to A4 sized paged, or always use a certain scaling factor). I will show how a new fixup can be created that actually prompts for the dimensions of the new target page size. In my example, I will scale to a target size of 6×9″, but that can be any size, and you can use other units besides inches as well.This is a Preflight option, so we need to open up the Preflight tool first (e.g. Search for “Preflight” in the “Tools” area):Once the Preflight dialog is up, select the “Single Fixups” category (the wrench icon in the screenshot):Now use the “Options” menu and select to create a new fixup:This will bring up a potentially confusing looking interface – at least if you’ve never been in here before – but when you follow my instructions, it should be pretty straight forward:Use a descriptive name for this new fixup, then select the “Pages” category and search for fixups that have “scale” in their name and select the one named “Scale pages”.
Now we need to fill in some data in the lower part of the dialog. You see the two orange buttons next to the short and long edge fields? Click them – one after the other – and fill in some values:For short edge use these values:Label: Short Edge (in)Default Value: 6Internal Name: shortedgeAnd, for long edge use this:Label: Long Edge (in)Default Value: 9Internal Name: longedgeIf you are using a unit system different from inches, your default may be different.Now back on the main dialog, we need to adjust a few more things:Set the units to “inch” – or to whatever your preferred units are.
The “Fit from inside (add white space)” option specifies that the original page should be scaled so that it fits within the new target rectangle, and that the remaining space, not covered by the original page should be filled with white.Now you can select the fixup and apply it to your open document. It will prompt you to select a target page size in inches (you can just accept the defaults in your case), and it will scale all pages in your document.Update:In a recent update to Acrobat DC, Adobe changed the way variables get added to the user interface.
When you just click assigning a variable to either the short or the long edge, Acrobat will not remove the number that is already on the line, and will just insert the new variable at the beginning of the line:You need to remove the number at the end of the line, so that only the variable (from ““) remains on the line. Hi, I’m feeling really stupid. I’ve tried this PreFlight scaling trick a few times, and never can I get my document to go from 10×10 to 12×12. It becomes like 175×175 or something insanely large.
The site I’m trying to upload this photobook requires the document be exactly 12×12 and can’t scale down or up, so I’m struggling here.What should go in the Short Edge and what should go in the Long Edge? I have Inches selected as my unit, and “Fit from inside, scale page edges proportionally” selected.On the “Specify Variable Value” box, what should go in there if I want to go from 10 to 12?
When I put in “12”, the result is 173 inches by 173 inches. When I put in 2, the result is.29x.29 inches. When I put in “1.2”, thinking it might be a multiplier, it becomes 1.2×1.2 inches.
So there doesnt seem to be a lot of rhyme or reason behind how it’s calculating these things. Karl, I have found this very useful, thank you. I have an issue with bleed though.I will be submitting my book for a second print run, and have decided for a slightly smaller size whilst maintaining the same aspect ratio, primarily to make it easier to fit into a padded envelope. Original book = 210x270mm.
Proposed for 2nd print run = 200×257.14mm. I have successfully shrunk the PDF file generated from InDesign, but that is without the bleed + printer marks (which the printers require me to submit).Any idea how I can shrink just the book content only, while maintaining a 3mm bleed etc? Richard, I don’t think that’s possible with Acrobat: It will shrink everything – context and printers marks. What you can do is just process the content of your document, and then in a second step apply the printers marks again – at least that’s what I would do. I assume that you’ve created the marks within InDesign, so you would first have to remove them, and then add them again in Acrobat after you resize the document. This may require multiple steps to first crop the content, then resize the content, potentially enlarge the pages and then apply the marks again. Hi Karl, Thanks for the tips!
I have Adobe Acrobat Pro version 11.0.12, running in Windows, and I could use that trick you taugh!However, I cannot find the option to scale up in Preflight.I have selected “Single Fixups” (wrench) and have typed “Scale” into the Find bar, but no option to scale the page comes up. If I skip the search and expand Pages to see all fixes beneath it, there is also no scaling option listed.The option to scale also doesn’t show up if I try to create a new Preflight Fixup.Do you have any suggestions?Many thanks!
My print specifications are a little different than most, and I’m trying to figure out how to get exactly what I need. I have an 8-1/2 x 11 page that I need to reduce the text on to 71%, but I also need the page size changed to 5-3/4 x 8. I don’t have any leeway on meeting either of these standards, so what I actually need to happen is to reduce the text to 71%, then change the page size to 5-3/4 x 8 without causing any further change to the text size. Currently if I run the 71% reduction, then change the page size, I end up having the text reduced further to accommodate the left and right margins that currently exist. But what I need it to do is trim those margins, while adding additional white space to the top and bottom to meet the 8 in. Imposition software does this without problem, but I was just hoping to find a way to do it in acrobat without having the purchase further software. Karl, update on my problem.
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I just found a way to get to my desired end result while still using the Preflight Fixup tools. After I run the scale pages 71% reduction I set up, I use the scale pages command again to set the specific page size, but used the adjustment “Fit from outside (cut page)” instead of the “Fit from inside (add white space) command I used the first time, and that did the trick – trimming the sides but expanding the top and bottom automatically. Thanks so much for your help in getting me where I needed to go! Karl, I recently figured this out on my own. I wish I’d come across your blog sooner butI’ve noticed in using this feature that sometimes, some pages are not scaled. Have you noticed this and come up with any rhyme or reason as to why they wouldn’t scale, by chance.
I’m working on construction-realated PDFs created by customers plunking together all sorts of files – scanned, actual PDFs and Word docs, large format drawings, JPGs, etc and so, w/o scaling, the printer can’t print.At least using this tool, I have to go back and correct only a small fraction manually but, thought I’d see if you’d come across this too.TY! Just wanted to add my thanks here. I was going somewhat crazy with some PDFs that had been created as large posters, but that we wanted to print as 8.5 x 11 within a combined PDF. The people trying to print the combined PDF were having a lot of issues with their printer asking for different sizes of paper.
(And none of the “easy” printer setting fixes were working.) These instructions were very clear and helpful, and completely solved my problem. I am very grateful!(Using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 2015 Release (Classic) Version 2015.006.30306).
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